From New York, this is Democracy Now.

Those bragging about overturning the road we would have no clue about the power of women but they

found out when reproductive freedom was on the ballot we won in 2022 and

2020 and we will again in 2024. President Biden delivers his state of the Union.

We'll play excerpts and on this International Women's, get response from the nation publisher

Katrina Vandenhovel, Israeli peace activist Netahaman Mina, whose mother was a

hostage in Gaza, and Palestinian-Egyptian-American University

of Chicago Professor Iman Adel-Hadi, who gave an alternate so-to last night, called the State of Genocide.

Tonight's State of the Union is the State of the Genocide because our leaders have followed a familiar playbook.

Investing in power, money, and blood at the expense of humanity.

All that and more coming up. Welcome to Democracy Now.

Democracy Now. Dotorg, the War and Peace Report, I'm Amy Goodman.

President Biden delivered the State of the Union

Thursday night as he faces the likely prospect

of an election rematch with Donald Trump in November and amidst mounting public

anger over his enabling of Israel's assault on Gaza. Biden announced plans to

tax the wealthy, vowed to restore federal abortion rights, and touted his record

on relaxing federal marijuana restrictions and punishments.

But he also doubled down on his efforts to pass a hard-line border and immigration

crackdown and repeated far-right Congress member Marjorie Taylor Green's use of

the term illegal after she hecled him during the speech over the death of a

Georgia woman who allegedly was killed by an undocumented immigrant.

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